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Elephant's Eye - "See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me, Heal Me"
Elephant's Eye - "See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me, Heal Me"
Dr.Confuser


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Textures III (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Nikon D70
Lens: Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 VR DG IF-ED
Location: Seattle - Woodland Park Zoo
Date: Jul 13, 2005
Aperture: F2/2.8
ISO: 800
Shutter: 1/45
Galleries: Animals, Macro
Date Uploaded: Jul 15, 2005

 Photographer’s Notes
Went to Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo today looking for zoo animals and chanced upon this opportunity to showcase an interesting texture. I know elephant hide’s been done before and may even be done again in this challenge. Hopefully this will be good enough to stand out from the crowd.

I love my 70 - 200 lens. this was taken from about 50 feet.

I know there will be folks that will comment that this would be so much better in B&W or desaturated. I tried it that way but I felt it would be like stealing part of this noble animal's soul to steal away his color.

Post Processing
Rotate (90 degrees CCW)
Reduce Noise (Neat Image)
Sharpen (Lab color method with CS2 Smart Sharpen)
Crop
Auto Levels
Auto Contrast
Auto Color
Resize (Bicubic sharper)
Hue/Saturation(+10)
Save for Web

Camera Data
Nikon D70
2005/07/13 16:47:59.9
JPEG (8-bit) Fine
Image Size: Large (3008 x 2000)
Lens: VR 70-200mm F/2.8 G
Focal Length: 160mm
Exposure Mode: Aperture Priority
Metering Mode: Center-Weighted
1/45 sec - F/2.8
Exposure Comp.: 0 EV
Sensitivity: ISO 800
Optimize Image: Vivid
White Balance: Auto
AF Mode: AF-S
Flash Sync Mode: Not Attached
Color Mode: Mode IIIa (sRGB)
Tone Comp: Auto
Hue Adjustment: 0°
Saturation: Normal
Sharpening: Auto
Image Comment:
Noise Reduction: OFF

Statistics
Place: 79 out of 614
Avg (all users): 5.8571
Avg (commenters): 8.0000
Avg (participants): 5.7095
Avg (non-participants): 6.1383
Views since voting: 1347
Views during voting: 379
Votes: 273
Comments: 13
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/26/2005 08:27:16 PM
Good work with this compositionally. It is a unique and interesting image.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/26/2005 02:57:52 AM
Impressive. Simply beautiful.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/25/2005 08:24:24 PM
Evocative!!! Got me right "here"!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/24/2005 07:12:24 PM
Wow, elephants eyelashes are longer than all my hair.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/23/2005 08:12:06 AM
Melancholy. Very unusual composition/crop. Nice textures. 7
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/23/2005 12:22:25 AM
I just returned from driving through mountains that looked just like elephant skin. Beautiful shot!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/22/2005 07:42:47 PM
this is a brilliant shot,,,, such detail, excellent colour,,,, very welldone
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/22/2005 04:27:13 PM
One of the most detailed elephant shoot in this challenge
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/20/2005 05:26:02 PM
I don't think I ever realized that elephants have hair on their eyes...neat shot.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/20/2005 10:31:33 AM
Very cool!!!! Alot ike one I wanted to submit. I got it while shooting the zoo challenge, but when I went back to get it for the textures challenge, he wouldn't pose again :( Anyway, yours is probably much better, so it worked out :) Excellent job. The texture just jumps off the page at you!!! 10
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/20/2005 09:50:23 AM
Very crinkly! nice use of rule of 3rds
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/20/2005 02:18:56 AM
I never realized how much elephants need skin care..badly
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/20/2005 12:35:50 AM
This is great. Seems a tad overexposed, but the detail and composition is really well done. 8
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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